Deuteronomy 12:24

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

In Context

23Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

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Cross References

Leviticus 3:17It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that all of you eat neither fat nor blood.

Deuteronomy 15:23Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 12:6-32

Where Sacrifices Must Be Offered; Ceremonial Observances; Cautions Against Idolatrous Rites. ( b. c. 1451.) 5 But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 7 And there ye… Read the whole commentary →

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